What are the most searched words? Google answers that.
What do people want to know more when they search online?
Google has released its annual list of the most searched-for words in the world. And topped the list in 2016, the word "Powerball", sweepstakes lottery in the United States is very popular and is characterized this time by the grand prize of $ 1.6 billion, according to the search engine "Google".
As for the world, the most popular search was for the term Pokémon Go for smartphones, a game that allows its users to capture, fight and train virtual objects called Pokemon (singular Pokemon), which appear on the screens of devices as if they exist in the real world , in public places.
Besides the games - including real games such as the Summer Olympics - came second and third respectively with the late rock star Prince and British artist David Bowie. The US presidential election nominees, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, ranked eighth and ten, respectively, in last year's ranking.
Trump was ranked third on the global search list. As for the 10 most popular terms around the world, it involved a mix of technology trends, celebrities, and movies, with the latest release of iPhones ranked second in the world, and the list included two thrillers.
Internet analysts estimate that Google searches more than 2 trillion searches annually, or 5.5 billion searches per day. The company didn't provide exact figures for the searches, but said the following terms were most searched for in the U.S. in 2016:
Powerball (lottery withdrawal)
Artist Prince
Hurricane Matthew
Pokémon Go
Slither.io video game
the Olympics
British singer David Boy
Trump
The election
Hillary Clinton
Globally, the most popular search terms are as follows:
Pokémon Go
IPhone 7
Donald Trump
Prince (singer who died in 2016)
Powerball (US lottery withdrawal)
British artist David Bowie
Deadpool (fictional movie)
Olympiad
Slither.io video game
Suicide Squad (motion picture)
Google has distributed the most popular words in its search engine to 64 countries. In India, the Olympic Games, Pokemon and the Euro in 2016 received the lion's share of interest from Internet surfers. In Mexico, the Pokemon game, the Olympic Games and Juan Gabriel, the artist who died in August 2016, were the most searched for on Google's engine.
In the UK, the terms Euro 2016, Pokemon and David Bowie topped the list of terms searched. As for the political figures most sought after, Trump won over Theresa May, the new Prime Minister of Britain.
